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It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth’s son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up. Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two individual women and between their different worlds. In this complex thriller, Philippa Gregory deploys all her insight into what women want and what women fear, as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity.

Returning to an England now alien to him Thomas Berrington falls foul of a thieves’ guild. In his efforts to protect a stranger he becomes their target. When the bonemen come to inflict punishment he has no choice but to kill one of their order. Fleeing London in the company of Arthur, Prince of Wales, heir to the English throne, Thomas believes he has escaped retribution for his actions. But it is a mistake that may get him and his companions killed.

Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortions. The queen of this unsavory neighborhood is Black Lena Shanks, whose family leads a ring of female criminals-women skilled in the art of cruelty. Only a few blocks away, amidst the elegant mansions and lily-white reputations of Gramercy Park and Washington Square, lives Judge James Stallworth.

A stolen child. A terrible wartime secret. Norway, 1940. Seduced by Nazi propaganda, Liv offers herself to the German High Command as war reaches rural Norway. She has something very special that they want in Berlin - but the personal cost will be terrible. Can she survive what she did as a...

Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground her life. Family and friends surround her and a RAF officer attempts to bring her the normality of love and affection but she is haunted by the guilt of knowing...

A cidade de vapor é o tributo de Zafón a seus milhões de leitores. Composto por onze contos, o livro póstumo do autor espanhol mais lido depois de Cervantes conduz o leitor por uma extraordinária jornada de mistério gótico, consagrada na tetralogia O Cemitério dos Livros Esquecidos...

Bloomsbury presents Rage of Swords by David Gilman, read by Colin Mace. The thrilling new historical adventure in the Master of War series. Sir Thomas Blackstone must travel into enemy lands with a price on his head as he seeks to secure alliances and gold for the Plantagenets' war with France...

In the fair autumn of Our Lord's grace 1431, the nuns of England's St. Frideswide's prepare for the simply ceremonies in which the saintly novice Thomasine will take her holy vows. But their quiet lives of beauty and prayer are thrown into chaos by the merciless arrival of Lady Ermentrude Fenner and her retinue of lusty men, sinful women, and baying hounds. The hard-drinking dowager even keeps a pet monkey for her amusement. She demands wine, a feast.... And her niece, the angelic Thomasine.

'Cooke is known for her ability to craft spellbinding tales filled with dread and terror, but also beauty' Scots Magazine Three women. Seven centuries. One unbreakable blood curse… It began in fire… Paris, 1307. When eleven-year-old Princess Isabella of France watches four men burn at the...

It is August of 1704, and Matthew Corbett and his companions have narrowly escaped the island of Golgotha and are recuperating in the town of Alghero on the northwestern coast of Sardinia, currently under Spanish rule. Hudson Greathouse is at his limits, both mentally and physically, after their harrowing ordeal.

A brand-new recording of the classic work, narrated by Luke Thompson, who plays Bridgerton's Benedict. 'Every day, haunted still by doubt, I ask myself a question which I cannot answer. Was Rachel innocent or guilty?' Philip Ashley has been raised by his cousin Ambrose as heir to his beautiful...

Alan Le May’s Western novels are widely considered classics in the genre, and the movie adaptation of The Searchers was named AFI’s Greatest Western Movie of All Time. When Martin Pauley and Amos Edwards return to their Texas homestead to find a burning ruin, they set out to find Amos’ missing daughter - and exact revenge on the Comanche responsible for the attack.

Some ghosts wear boots. Some just whistle.Guatemala, 1977. Private Diego Morales didn't volunteer for the jungle — nobody in Second Platoon did. But the Petén doesn't care whose idea it was. It swallows roads, swallows silence, and, if the old stories are true, it sends something ahead of the...

The deadly race for the secrets to absolute power begins… 1227 CE, MONGOLIA. The greatest conqueror ever lived is entombed with a terrifying weapon, a secret which can obliterate any enemy and bring the greatest nations to ruin. NOW, dark forces are gathering to possess what is in his grave to...

For seventeen years, Hawthorne Mill has stood silent beside the river. Its machinery stopped in November 1919, its doors were locked, and the truth about its final night shift disappeared into rumours. Some villagers remember an accident. Others remember missing workers. But the surviving...

Falsely accused of a heinous crime in the 22nd century, former Interpol operative Nicholas Gates is now on the run through time. While roaming the United States in 1950, he detects the signal of another time traveler. Unfortunately, the traveler is sitting in a Boulder, Colorado jail—and...

La misteriosa reliquia que la restauradora de arte Marta Arbide entregó al Vaticano ha sido robada. Cuando recibe la noticia de que debe ser ella quien encabece la investigación para recuperarla, siente que la aventura y el misterio que la pusieron al límite en La luz invisible no han hecho más que comenzar. Y así es: el mismo día que Marta llega a Roma para comenzar sus pesquisas, el Papa es asesinado.

Eine Verschwörung im Herzen des Reiches 63 vor Christus, eine Zeit des Friedens und des Wohlstands: Die Legionen der mächtigen Römischen Republik haben alle Feinde in die Knie gezwungen. Doch auf den Straßen Roms fließt das Blut. Während die Obrigkeit wegsieht, führt Decius Caecilius...

Latem 1941 roku Niemcy zajmują dawne województwo stanisławowskie. Rodzina Szymańskich zostaje rozbita. Uznana za winną zdrady i spiskowania z wrogiem Łucja znajduje się na zesłaniu w ZSRR, Aldona pnie się w górę w hierarchii partii bolszewickiej, Konstancja zaś walczy o przetrwanie w getcie w Stanisławowie.

A burned-out American dropout turned rising star, he plays the clubs under the name VESPER and composes with the help of MUSES, a superintelligent AI that finishes his hooks before he can think them. Then, one night in the small hours, the machine tells him something no machine should know: that Napoleon Bonaparte begged with his dying breath to be buried on the banks of the Seine, that he lies instead in the wrong grave a mile from the water, and that the Emperor will never rest until someone carries him home to the river.